News Briefs for October 13, 2023
October 13, 2023•Fort Collins, Colorado-based Old Elk Distillery is releasing the second installment in its Cigar Cut series, Island Blend. The expression is a combination of Old Elk’s Cask Finish Series, blending other Old Elk releases including High-Malt Straight Bourbon Whiskey, Straight Rye Whiskey, and Straight Wheat Whiskey, finished in Port, Sauternes, Sherry, or rum barrels. The constituent whiskies are all aged a minimum of six years before the finishing. Old Elk’s Cigar Cut Island Blend is distributed by Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits and will be a national limited release, available at select retailers with a suggested retail price of $130 a 750-ml., bottled at 55% abv.
•Kentucky-based Barrell Craft Spirits has announced Foundation, a new lower-proof permanent addition to the company’s portfolio. The new whiskey is blended from Bourbon sourced from Kentucky (eight years old), Indiana (five, six, and nine years old), Tennessee (eight years old), and Maryland (five and six years old), and bottled at 50% abv. This release is the first whiskey from Barrell not to be released at cask strength. Foundation carries a suggested price of $60 a bottle and is now available in Arizona, California, Washington, D.C., Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Texas, and Washington ahead of a national rollout in January 2024.
•Atlanta, Georgia-based Tip Top Proper Cocktails is adding to its RTD lineup with a Boulevardier. Developed by mixologist Miles Macquarrie, the Boulevardier comes in 100-ml. cans at 29% abv. A take on the Negroni invented in Paris in the 1920s, the cocktail is made with whiskey, vermouth, and red bitters. Tip Top’s cocktail line includes Gin Martini, Manhattan, Negroni, and Old Fashioned, among others and is available at retail in 14 states, with direct shipping to 40.
•Louisville, Kentucky’s Buzzard’s Roost Sipping Whiskeys have expanded their distribution footprint, adding 10 new markets across the U.S. The expansion—which covers Colorado, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.—brings the whiskies to 20 states in all. The move will bring all six of the company’s core releases including three Bourbons and three ryes to the new states along with limited quantities of the Buzzard’s Roost’s special releases.
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